Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War

Name: Redemption The Last Battle of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780374248550

ISBN-10: 0374248559

ISBN-13: 9780374248550

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Nicholas Lemann

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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. nbsp; Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Nicholas Lemann was born in New Orleans in 1954. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years. His last book was the prizewinning The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. He lives in Pelham, New York.



A Note to the Reader


Prologue


Adelbert and Blanche


Vicksburg Troubles


The Peace Conference


Revolution


The Mississippi Plan


Notes


A Note on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index